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Georgetown Daily Item

Location

Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Oct 29, 1909

Page

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Rates of Taxation Compared Across South Carolina Counties

The article lists county tax rates from Acts of the last Legislature, noting Georgetown county’s tax burden is lower than 34 of 42 counties. It provides a long table of mills and railroad bond surcharges across Lancaster Union Chesterfield Pickens Spartanburg Kershaw Laurens Saluda Horry York Marlboro Abbeville Chester Hampton Lee Oconee Cherokee Berkeley Fairfield Edgefield Greenville Marion Lexington Beaufort Darlington Dorchester Clarendon Colleton Newberry Sumter Anderson Bamberg Barnwell Williamsburg Calhoun Aiken Florence Orangeburg Charleston Richland.

Georgetown County Lancaster R. R. Bonds Union Chesterfield Pickens Spartanburg Kershaw Laurence Saluda Horry York R.R. Bonds Marlboro Abbeville Chester Hampton Lee Oconee Cherokee Berkley Stock Fairfield Edgefield Greenville Marion Lexington Mills R. R. Purposes Beaufort Darlington Dorchester Clarendon Colleton Newberry Sumter Anderson One Bamberg Barnwell Williamsburg Calhoun Aiken Florence Orangeburg Charleston Mills Richland

Most Heavily Insured Woman In America

Chicago story reports Mrs Charles Netcher owner of the Boston Store insured for 1,000,000 after adding 300,000 new life coverage. Her husband, Charles Netcher, had a 500,000 policy earlier in 1904 and died in June of that year.

Chicago Charles Netcher Boston America

Assassin Identified in Ito’s Death

Harbin Manchuria October 28 The assassin of Prince Ito was identified today as the former editor of a Seoul newspaper. He said he belonged to a Korean organization that had planned the killing of the Japanese statesman.

Harbin Manchura Prince Ito Seoul

Draws Plan for His Coffin in Final Letter

J B Bates condemned for murder of Mrs Decia Boiter and scheduled to hang October 29 sent a letter to L A Justice with coffin plans. He asked for a $20 casket, painted with shoe polish, rope handles, and for the coffin to be brought to the jail at night wrapped to keep it secret.

Spartanburg J. B. Bates Decia Boiter L. A. Justice Bates

Daily Item advertise price at ten cents per week

The notice states the Daily Item is delivered each afternoon at a rate of ten cents per week.

Opening of the G C and O railway celebration in Spartanburg

Special delegations from Columbia Atlanta Charleston Augusta Wilmington and other cities gather in Spartanburg for a barbecue banquet honoring the completion of the Carolina Clinchfield & Ohio railway a 240 mile trunk line linking the South Atlantic states with Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee The $25 to $30 million project features heavy ballast tunnels steel bridges and very powerful locomotives and may extend to Charleston Savannah or Southport N C with Charleston favored for terminal sites Several prominent officials editors and governors attend the event including Mayor W S Reamer Mayor R G Rhett A W Anderson and Gov Ansel who is absent on Taft Mississippi trip

Spartanburg S.C Columbia Atlanta Charleston Augusta Wilmington Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway South Atlantic States Virginia Kentucky Tennessee Dante Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce W.S. Reamer R. G. Rhett A. W. Anderson Charleston & Western Carolina Road T. M. Emerson Atlantic Coast Line W. E. Gonzales The Columbia State Jas. A. Hoyt Columbia Evening Record J.C. Hemphill Charleston News and Courier Archie A. Phlegar Johnston City Tenn Ellison A. Smyth Greenville American Cotton Manufacturers’ Association Frank Hammond People’s Bank United States E. D. Smith Alester G. Furman Saluda S’ower Company T. C. Williams Norfolk, Spartanburg Hendersonville Sumter Geo. W. Brunson, Jr Greenville News Geo. L. Carter M. J. Caples John Ston City Ansel Mississippi Taft Railroad Commission South & Western Railway Seaboard Savannah Southport N. C Clinchfield New York

Doan's Kidney Pills Promising Georgetown Testimony

Mrs. S. M. Tompkins of 201 King St Georgetown S C reports backache fatigue and kidney problems eased after using Doan's Kidney Pills from Iseman Drug Co. The testimonial claims one box cured pain and improved energy with regular kidney function restored. Sold by all dealers price 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents in the United States. Remember the name Doan's.

Dean Iseman Drug Co Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo New York United States Doan

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Ito Georgetown O. E. Hughes&Co Ashley Avenue Charleston, 8. C Phenix Furniture Co Springs Stan American Live Stock Insurance Co J. A.hemingway J. A. Bruorton H.d.munnerlyn & Co Choppee, 8. C
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